English

Enumeration of curves with two singular points

Algebraic Geometry 2015-12-29 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In this paper we obtain an explicit formula for the number of curves in two dimensional complex projective space, of degree d, passing through d(d+3)/2-(k+1) generic points and having one node and one codimension k singularity, where k is at most 6. Our main tool is a classical fact from differential topology: the number of zeros of a generic smooth section of a vector bundle V over M, counted with a sign, is the Euler class of V evaluated on the fundamental class of M.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1409.6702,
  title  = {Enumeration of curves with two singular points},
  author = {Somnath Basu and Ritwik Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6702},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

56 pages, 1 figure; comments are welcome. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1308.2902

R2 v1 2026-06-22T06:03:59.835Z